In a massive boost to the INDIA bloc, its constituents won 10 of the 13 assembly seats where by-elections were held in seven states, while the Bharatiya Janata Party managed to bag two and an Independent pocketed one seat as votes were counted.
According to PTI , The Congress won four seats — two in BJP-ruled Uttarakhand and two in Himachal Pradesh.
The Trinamool Congress bagged all the four seats in West Bengal while the Aam Aadmi Party won the Jalandhar West seat in Punjab and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam emerged victorious in the Vikravandi constituency in Tamil Nadu.
The BJP won the Hamirpur seat in Himachal Pradesh while Independent candidate Shankar Singh clinched the Rupauli seat in Bihar.
The Congress hailed the results, saying they “reflect the changing political climate in the country” and it has now become clear that the web of “fear and illusion woven by the BJP has been broken”.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee thanked the people . “Three out of four seats were of BJP which have now been won by TMC… This victory is the victory of the people and I thank the people, we will dedicate this victory on July 21st…”
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin referred to the INDIA bloc’s good show and said BJP should learn lessons from its defeats.
“BJP must realise that without respecting regional sentiments it cannot run the government and the party,” he said. He described his party’s victory as people’s “thanksgiving” to DMK regime’s welfare schemes.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha , Rahul Gandhi tweeted On X
7 राज्यों में हुए उपचुनाव के नतीजों ने स्पष्ट कर दिया है कि भाजपा द्वारा बुना गया ‘भय और भ्रम’ का जाल टूट चुका है।
किसान, नौजवान, मज़दूर, व्यापारी और नौकरीपेशा समेत हर वर्ग तानाशाही का समूल नाश कर न्याय का राज स्थापित करना चाहता है।
अपने जीवन की बेहतरी और संविधान की रक्षा के…
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 13, 2024
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Tweeted on X His reaction to the B- election results
विधानसभा उपचुनाव के सकारात्मक परिणाम के लिए हम जनता के सामने नतमस्तक है।
उन्होंने जहाँ-जहाँ कांग्रेस पार्टी के उम्मीदवारों के लिए वोट किया, इसके लिए उनका तहेदिल से धन्यवाद व आभार।
विपरीत परिस्थितियों में सभी कांग्रेस कार्यकर्ताओं की मेहनत और प्रयासों के लिए हम उनका अभिवादन…
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) July 13, 2024
In Badrinath, Congress’s Lakhapat Butola, a first-time contestant, scored an upset victory over former minister and MLA Rajendra Bhandari of the BJP whose resignation as a legislator just before the Lok Sabha polls had necessitated the bypoll. Butola’s victory margin was 5,224 votes.
Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur, wife of Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, defeated BJP’s Hoshiyar Singh to win the Dehra seat by a margin of 9,399 votes. Hardeep Singh Bawa also defeated his nearest rival and BJP candidate K L Thakur in Nalagarh by 8,990 votes. Bawa is a five-time Indian National Trade Union Congress president.
The bypoll results ensured that for the first time in the electoral history of the state, a husband and wife — Sukhvinder Sukhu and Kamlesh Thakur — would be members of the Himachal Pradesh assembly. In another first, there will not be a single Independent MLA in the assembly.
